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Platforms Beat Applications
June 12, 2009 – 6:06 pm | Comments
Platforms Beat Applications

Platforms beat applications.  OK -    So what is a platform?  The nomenclature of platforms and applications arise from technology but I will use a low tech retail metaphor.   An application in this analogy is …

Case Study – Stimuluswatch.org
March 2, 2009 – 5:47 pm | Comments

Stimuluswatch.org allows citizens to see local government requests for stimulus-spending projects, add details, vote projects up or down and generally discuss the merit of each.  It is a great example of how the Internet lowers …

Whitehouse.Gov is Launched – Barack Obama Becomes Our First Internet President
January 21, 2009 – 3:09 pm | Comments
Whitehouse.Gov is Launched – Barack Obama Becomes Our First Internet President

FDR was our radio president, JFK was our TV president and Barack Obama will be our Internet President.
Quietly at noon yesterday, as the world was fixated on the televised inauguration of Barack Obama, some obscure …

Networked Democracy: Video Interview with Jascha Franklin-Hodge
October 21, 2008 – 12:10 pm | Comments

Blue State Digital was born out of Jascha’s experience helping Howard Dean’s seminal run for the White House in ’04. and is the technology and strategic services company powering Barack Obama (and many other Democratic leaders and social justice causes like Save Darfur and We Can Solve It).